Packet G: Bonus 7

The songs “All For You” and “Ghana Freedom” are by E. T. Mensah, who was known as the “King” of this genre, and his band The Tempos. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this genre that bands such as the Jazz Kings developed in expensive dance clubs. This Ghanaian genre’s popularity in Nigeria influenced the development of jùjú and Afrobeat.
ANSWER: highlife
[10m] Ghanaian highlife keeps time with these instruments playing on beats 4, 6, and 8 in an 8-beat cycle. Nigerian highlife instead uses these percussion instruments’ namesake rhythmic patterns, whose son and rumba types are the foundation of Cuban music.
ANSWER: claves (“CLAH-vays”) [accept son clave or rumba clave]
[10e] In the early 2000s, Nigerian musicians such as Yinka Ayefele and Tope Alabi fused highlife with this genre. Mahalia Jackson sang in this genre of Black religious music.
ANSWER: gospel [accept gospel highlife]
<FW, Other Fine Arts> | Packet G - McMaster A, Notre Dame C, Rutgers A, NYU A

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Arizona StateUC Irvine001010E
UC Santa BarbaraUCLA A001010E
UCSD BUCLA B0000
UCSD CUCSD A0101020ME

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